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Can Tabular Foundation Models Guide Exploration in Robot Policy Learning?

Buqing Ou, Frederike Dumbgen ยท 2026

Policy optimization in high-dimensional continuous control for robotics remains a challenging problem. Predominant methods are inherently local and often require extensive tuning and carefully chosen โ€ฆ

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Feedback Linearization of Hyperbolic PDEs with Volterra Nonlinearities

Miroslav Krstic ยท 2026

Alberto Isidori's framework of geometric nonlinear control, and particularly of feedback linearization, is the inspiration behind PDE backstepping: apply a transfromation of the state to cast the planโ€ฆ

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DOT-Sim: Differentiable Optical Tactile Simulation with Precise Real-to-Sim Physical Calibration

Yang You, Won Kyung Do, Aiden Swann, Rika Antonova, Monroe Kennedy, Leonidas Guibas ยท 2026

Simulating optical tactile sensors presents significant challenges due to their high deformability and intricate optical properties. To address these issues and enable a physically accurate simulationโ€ฆ

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Regime-Adaptive Weighted Ensemble Learning for Computing-Driven Dynamic Load Forecasting in AI Data Centers

Ziying Wang, Ying Zhang, Lei Wang, Yuzhang Lin ยท 2026

Short-term load forecasting for AI data centers presents new challenges because it is computing-driven, with heterogeneous job arrivals, sizes, and durations exhibiting bursty, non-stationary dynamicsโ€ฆ

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Variational Neural Belief Parameterizations for Robust Dexterous Grasping under Multimodal Uncertainty

Clinton Enwerem, Shreya Kalyanaraman, John S. Baras, Calin Belta ยท 2026

Contact variability, sensing uncertainty, and external disturbances make grasp execution stochastic. Expected-quality objectives ignore tail outcomes and often select grasps that fail under adverse coโ€ฆ

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A Miniaturized Broadband 1-Bit Coding Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for NLOS UE Localization and Uplink Communication

Khagendra Joshi, Deepak Kumar Sahoo, Kamalesh Kumar K, Debidas Kundu, Vivek A. Bohara, Amalendu Patnaik ยท 2026

In this paper, a broadband 1-bit coding metasurface-based reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is presented. The unit cell of the metasurface consists of a wide dipole modified with interdigital cโ€ฆ

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Pushing Radar Odometry Beyond the Pavement: Current Capabilities and Challenges

Shaunak Kolhe, Peng Jiang, Maggie Wigness, Philip Osteen, Timothy Overbye, Chrisitan Ellis, Srikanth Saripalli ยท 2026

Radar offers unique advantages for localization in unstructured environments, including robustness to weather, lighting, and airborne particulates. While most prior work has studied radar odometry in โ€ฆ

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Pedestrians play chicken with an autonomous vehicle

Rakshit Soni, Charles Fox ยท 2026

Automated vehicles (AVs) are commonly programmed to yield unconditionally to pedestrians in the interest of safety. However, this design choice can give rise to the Freezing Robot Problem in which pedโ€ฆ

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Shared-kernel Wavelet Neural Networks for Poisson Image Reconstruction

Yuanhao Gong, Tan Tang, Qianyan Liu ยท 2026

The Laplacian operator transforms the image into its Laplacian field, which usually is sparse and satisfies a stable distribution. On the other hand, an image can be uniquely reconstructed from its Laโ€ฆ

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Cooptimizing Safety and Performance Using Safety Value-Constrained Model Predictive Control

Hao Wang, Nam Nguyen, Armand Jordana, Ludovic Righetti, Somil Bansal ยท 2026

Autonomous systems are increasingly deployed in real-world environments, where they must achieve high performance while maintaining safety under state and input constraints. Although Model Predictive โ€ฆ

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Unified Energy Function Tailored to Inverter-Based Resources with PI Controllers for Transient Stability Analysis

Yifan Zhang, Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Yitong Li, Yang Wu ยท 2026

The increasing penetration of inverter-based resources (IBRs) has fundamentally altered the transient stability characteristics of modern power systems. IBRs typically rely on proportional--integral (โ€ฆ

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Move-Then-Operate: Behavioral Phasing for Human-Like Robotic Manipulation

Haoming Xu, Lei Lei, Jie Gu, Chu Tang, Jingmin Chen, Ruiqi Wang ยท 2026

We present Move-Then-Operate, a Vision language action framework that explicitly decouples robotic manipulation into two distinct behavioral phases: coarse relocation (move) and contact-critical interโ€ฆ

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Learning to Trust AI and Data-driven models in Data Assimilation through a Multifidelity Ensemble Gaussian Mixture Filter Framework

Andrey A. Popov ยท 2026

AI and data-driven models have large potential for data assimilation applications by creating fast and accurate forecasts. Their tendency to produce spurious inaccurate, nonphysical results -- halluciโ€ฆ

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Vision-Language-Action in Robotics: A Survey of Datasets, Benchmarks, and Data Engines

Ziyao Wang, Bingying Wang, Hanrong Zhang, Tingting Du, Tianyang Chen, Guoheng Sun, Yexiao He, Zheyu Shen, Wanghao Ye, Ang Li ยท 2026

Despite remarkable progress in Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models, a central bottleneck remains underexamined: the data infrastructure that underlies embodied learning. In this survey, we argue thaโ€ฆ

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GCImOpt: Learning efficient goal-conditioned policies by imitating optimal trajectories

Jon Goikoetxea, Jesus F. Palacian ยท 2026

Imitation learning is a well-established approach for machine-learning-based control. However, its applicability depends on having access to demonstrations, which are often expensive to collect and/orโ€ฆ

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When AI Meets Terahertz: A Survey on the Symbiosis of Artificial Intelligence and Terahertz Networks

Chong Han, Jingting Jiang, Zhengdong Hu, Meixia Tao, Wenjun Zhang ยท 2026

The Terahertz (THz) band (0.1-10 THz) has emerged as a critical frontier for future communication systems, offering ultra-wide bandwidths that enable Terabits-per-second (Tbps) wireless links and highโ€ฆ

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Learning-augmented robotic automation for real-world manufacturing

Yunho Kim, Quan Nguyen, Taewhan Kim, Youngjin Heo, Joonho Lee ยท 2026

Industrial robots are widely used in manufacturing, yet most manipulation still depends on fixed waypoint scripts that are brittle to environmental changes. Learning-based control offers a more adaptiโ€ฆ

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Advancing automatic speech recognition using feature fusion with self-supervised learning features: A case study on Fearless Steps Apollo corpus

Szu-Jui Chen, John H.L. Hansen ยท 2026

Using self-supervised learning (SSL) models has significantly improved performance for downstream speech tasks, surpassing the capabilities of traditional hand-crafted features. This study investigateโ€ฆ

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Robust Fixed-Time Model Reference Adaptive Control

Chayan Kumar Paul, Krishanu Nath, Indra Narayan Kar, Denis Efimov, Rosane Ushirobira ยท 2026

This article proposes a Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) strategy to achieve fixed-time convergence of parameter estimation and tracking errors for unknown linear time-invariant systems, withouโ€ฆ

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Stochastic Barrier Certificates in the Presence of Dynamic Obstacles

Rayan Mazouz, Luca Laurenti, Morteza Lahijanian ยท 2026

Safety of stochastic dynamic systems in environments with dynamic obstacles is studied in this paper through the lens of stochastic barrier functions. We introduce both time-invariant and time-varyingโ€ฆ

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